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Websites/Web 2.0 Tools

• http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Home
• Discovery Educator Network Webinar Archives: http://community.discoveryeducation.com/about/webinar_archives.cfm
• Discovery Educator Network Live Webinar Registration: http://links.discoveryeducation.com/webinars
• Glogster
  Glogster is an awesome, and free, web 2.0 tool.  It recently came out with an edu version that allows greater control for educators.  Check out their homepage for other examples.  http://edu.glogster.com/
• Google & Discovery Education: Tools For Your Classroom!
  http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth_discovery.html
• Google Lit Trip (Using Google Maps)
  Google Lit Trips brings travel tales to life. Whether it be about war, a novel, or a pilgrimage, your classrooms can get very creative. Discovery Education has over 20,000 images and over 23,000 articles that can be used to create a Google Lit Trip.
  Example: http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/digital_passports/2009/10/24/google-lit-trip-that-i-liked/
  Edutopia Article: http://www.edutopia.org/google-lit-trips-virtual-literature
• Prezi
  http://prezi.com
  Prezi is a web-based presentation tool using a map layout and zooming to show contextual relationships
  "A Day in the Life with DE" http://prezi.com/1o0pc0zkqzwp/discovery-education/
• Blabberize
  Blabberize is a new service that allows you to create your own talking picture, basically a moving mouth on a still image.
  http://blabberize.com/
  Example: http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/Jannita.Demian/2009/04/28/blabberize-from-the-mission/
• VoiceThread
  A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that can hold Discovery Education Content and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation.
  http://discoverybuilders.blogspot.com/2009/05/voicethread-example.html
• http://www.eschoolnews.com/
• http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy-tools.html#angle
• http://illuminations.nctm.org/
• http://www.aplusmath.com/
• http://www.coolmath4kids.com/
• http://www.mathwizz.com/
• http://www.kidsclick.org/ (This one has all subject areas - including history
• http://www.knowitall.org/
• http://www.funbrain.com/
• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
• http://www.learn4good.com/kids/index.htm
• http://www.kidsites.com/
• http://www.fossweb.com/ (Science site)
• http://www.internet4classrooms.com/k12links.htm
• http://www.algebrahelp.com/